What now? That should be painfuly obviouse, more of the same inadequate pompus, self-serving, self proclaimed Monarchy in the house & Governor's seat. Not that it would have been any different if the two other pompus asses were elected, but maybe it wouldn't have been as awful, you know, the lesser of the two evil's.Or were you commenting on prop 19? Yes alcohol is definately way better mind altering drug,@ least with pot still illegal it will continue to give our police department & court system a steady stream of clientel. Filling in all the empty prison cells wer may have if Prop 19 was approved. Let the molesters & wife beaters run free, it's more important to get those Junk Food Junky Pot Heads put away!STUPID PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE! But if that werte the case, even fewer of us would be out there filling the voting boxes (machines).POLITICIAN'S 100 PUBLIC 0000 we lose again.

<quoted text>What now? That should be painfuly obviouse, more of the same inadequate pompus, self-serving, self proclaimed Monarchy in the house & Governor's seat. Not that it would have been any different if the two other pompus asses were elected, but maybe it wouldn't have been as awful, you know, the lesser of the two evil's.Or were you commenting on prop 19? Yes alcohol is definately way better mind altering drug,@ least with pot still illegal it will continue to give our police department & court system a steady stream of clientel. Filling in all the empty prison cells wer may have if Prop 19 was approved. Let the molesters & wife beaters run free, it's more important to get those Junk Food Junky Pot Heads put away!STUPID PEOPLE SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO VOTE! But if that werte the case, even fewer of us would be out there filling the voting boxes (machines).POLITICIAN'S 100 PUBLIC 0000 we lose again.

No plan, but he's got a wife this time... that's reassuring. Or our other choice... a soar loser who's compaign was mostly bashing the other vs boosting herself (you know the coworker who doesn't do better, but instead tries to point out others flaws to make themselves look better, yeah, that's Whitman).

What lousy choices we had. Lesser of the two evils my foot... what's worse, vomit or diarreah? I think they both equally suck.

Meg help us at UC Berkeley: investigate the leadership of Cal. UC Berkeley’s Leadership CrisisChancellor Robert Birgeneau’s eight-year fiscal track record is dismal indeed. He would like to blame the politicians in Sacramento, since they stopped giving him every dollar he has asked for, and the state legislators do share some responsibility for the financial crisis. But not in the sense he means.A competent chancellor would have been on top of identifying inefficiencies in the system and then crafting a plan to fix them. Competent oversight by the Board of Regents and the legislature would have required him to provide data on problems and on what steps he was taking to solve them. Instead, every year Birgeneau would request a budget increase, the regents would agree to it, and the legislature would provide. The hard questions were avoided by all concerned, and the problems just piled up to $150 million of inefficiencies….until there was no money left.

It’s not that Birgeneau was unaware that there were, in fact, waste and inefficiencies in the system. Faculty and staff have raised issues with senior management, but when they failed to see relevant action taken, they stopped. Finally, Birgeneau engaged some expensive ($3 million) consultants, Bain & Company, to tell him what he should have been able to find out from the bright, engaged people in his own organization.

In short, there is plenty of blame to go around. But you never want a serious crisis to go to waste. An opportunity now exists for the UC president, Board of Regents, and California legislators to jolt UC Berkeley back to life, applying some simple check-and-balance management principles. Increasing the budget is not enough; transforming senior management is necessary. The faculty, Academic Senate, Cal. Alumni, financial donators, benefactors and await the transformation. The author, who has 35 years’ consulting experience, has taught at University of California Berkeley, where he was able to observe the culture and the way the senior management operates.

Didn't Brown (according to one of the mud slinging ads) allow full power of pay increases to City officials without a public vote or approval of any kind? So we're back in full circle again. Between china budding up with the Russians, talks of China no longer loaning the US money, All of the welfare increases dipping into SS funding's, denying SSI or SSD until a person dies or spends years fighting it and going to court makes me think the economy will never get any better. They want to rid the middle class, take their property and wealth away, new Bankruptcy laws don't wipe the slate clean anymore.. they just delay payments at best. delay the pain of being in debt to them. the backers of policies and political mover and shakers.

yeah it's welfare that's making us all destitute, not war entitlements and secret pentagon budgets, no bid contracts and the govt.'s refusal to negotiate with prescription drug companies for lower prices/group discounts (see medicare pt. D thanks to W)

left say...rich people getting richer is making us poor (check the inadequately taxed earnings of the top two per cent over the past few years)(or check out the record profits of oil companies, but hey,they worked hard so they earned it right! Like Paris Hilton right!

right say...poor people making us poorer!

why don't we just take away social security, give it to the wall street criminals like they gave them all that 401K money.. let people who've worked their asses off paying into SS just rot and die in the street! they must not have worked hard enough like the paris hilton class you FOOLS want not to tax "because rich people earned it."

ha, ha. just blame the poor people so Paris can live in her choice of mansions until she's a spoiled, yucky old hag flattering herself that her charity balls are making a difference.

Didn't Brown (according to one of the mud slinging ads) allow full power of pay increases to City officials without a public vote or approval of any kind? So we're back in full circle again. Between china budding up with the Russians, talks of China no longer loaning the US money, All of the welfare increases dipping into SS funding's, denying SSI or SSD until a person dies or spends years fighting it and going to court makes me think the economy will never get any better. They want to rid the middle class, take their property and wealth away, new Bankruptcy laws don't wipe the slate clean anymore.. they just delay payments at best. delay the pain of being in debt to them. the backers of policies and political mover and shakers.

what friggin welfare increases? whoever told you that is lying. stop listening to fox "news."

news and opinion have as much in common as the bible and playboy magazine. i think it was cronkite who said that.

there have been NO welfare "increases."

do you not have a concept of how the 3 trillion bailout for big banks--and businesses getting tax credits for moving operations offshore---have destroyed this economy? then there's the little matter of the three trillion that rumsfeld announced was just "lost" "missing" from the pentagon the day before 9/11. that news story sure didn't get any traction did it? big fat news story the following day to cover it up.

you are HIGH if you think poor people are to blame for the economy. please get a clue. read a newspaper. something. you are spouting propoganda put out by the very same people who are bringing us to ruin.

read history. the rich do not get richer nor the poor poorer by a natural process. it is a process of simple theivery. the theivery comes when people like ronald reagan start reducing taxes for the aristocrat class. NOT the middle class. the middle class of working people is being destroyed from the top, not the bottom. and it happens again and again and again.these people are anti-competition and anti middle class and they have YOU fooled.

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